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by signal11 1y ago
I love Windows 2000, it was pretty great, but display driver crashes would take down the system (similar to NT4). Also if 2000 was installed in most homes it’d be about as much of a fiasco as pre SP2 Windows XP. IIRC there were a bunch of w
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by signal11 2y ago
From the linked article > This block was the result of a communication error between Zoom’s domain registrar, Markmonitor, and GoDaddy Registry, which resulted in GoDaddy Registry mistakenly shutting down zoom.us domain. Markmonitor is u
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by signal11 2y ago
This misses how Microsoft makes money from Windows. Taking a cut of apps isn’t that useful because most people don’t install many apps. Of course it’s still welcome revenue, especially for games, but Steam has too much goodwill there, and E
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by signal11 2y ago
They’re both called Pro (iPad Pro and MacBook Pro) but thermals, RAM, etc are different. I think it’s fair to say an iPad Pro and a MacBook Air should be capable of similar-ish things, and that iPadOS could have way more “power” features. E
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by signal11 2y ago
There are a few shareholder-friendly patterns to get this done, but it is domain-specific. I’d say it’s more “rip off the bandaid slowly and carefully”. Eg a common one is to wrap a new no-op new service around the old one, and gradually re
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by signal11 2y ago
Thanks for this, this was very helpful! Sorry I completely misremembered what Win32s was, but unfortunately I can’t edit/delete it now. But the context you provided is amazing, especially the OS/2 bits.
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by signal11 2y ago
IIRC the first product that shipped with Win32s was Windows NT 3.1 (the first version, so numbered to be in sync with Windows 3.1). Freecell was NT-only and relatively niche until it was also released with Win95.
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by signal11 2y ago
It’s just big-corp tone deafness, eg Google engineers have pointed out that you can use defaults write com.google.Chrome URLBlocklist -array-add https://example.com to block sites without understanding that this is fundamentally
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by signal11 2y ago
> infinitely better reputation You’ve clearly not seen it enshittify: * More UI space devoted to brands (the Updates tab * Communities UX is, uh, suboptimal * Brands / business accounts can message you with no opt out, you can block
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by signal11 2y ago
Facebook Engineering has always been well regarded — starting with React on the front end, but also projects like Open Compute. Their product management on the other hand— well, I mean, Facebook and Instagram are arguably as popular as McDo
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by signal11 2y ago
> And it will likely be buggy with all sorts of edge cases. I have seen this view in corporate IT teams who’re happy to be “implementers” rather than engineers. In real life, many orgs will in fact have third party vendor products for in
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by signal11 2y ago
> If you answer yes to many of those questions there's really no better alternative than k8s. This is not even close to true with even a small number of resources. The notion that k8s somehow is the only choice is right along the li
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by signal11 2y ago
Dear Friend, This fascination with this new garbage-collected language from a Santa Clara vendor is perplexing. You’ve built yourself a COBOL system by another name. /s I love the “untested” criticism in a lot of these use-k8s screeds,
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by signal11 2y ago
An anecdote — I recently upgraded an old NodeJS project written using v14 to 22. It used an old version of Svelte for the UI. It wasn’t too bad, took about 90 minutes to upgrade a bunch of Svelte 3 components to Svelte 5, with some assistan
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by signal11 2y ago
Old Spring versions < 6.1 are obsolete, so you do have to upgrade Spring in many scenarios as well. No security fixes for them unless you pay for support.
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by signal11 2y ago
It’s interesting to consider the “magic” criticism in the context of languages like Zig, where devs actively want no hidden control flow. And Properties beyond simple { get; set; } are definitely hidden control flow. But as you said — it’s
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by signal11 2y ago
I use both delta and difftastic (difft), and cannot recommend them enough. If you use the terminal at all, get them!
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by signal11 2y ago
I’ve tried reading streamed parquet via PyArrow with Duck, and it’s been pretty promising. Depending on the query, you won’t need to download everything off HTTP.
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by signal11 2y ago
A lot of users do care for fit and finish, but stick around with crappy UI because it’s not worth rage-quitting over. They do move when better UI + same-ish functionality comes along. The one sort-of exception to this is Enterprise Sales,
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by signal11 2y ago
The Epic v Google and Epic v Apple cases are a great showcase about how the law actually works in practice. Epic v Google was a jury trial, and also there was plenty of evidence in discovery to Epic’s favour[1], and also there was evidence
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by signal11 2y ago
> I think I've called it a smoking crater where ten billion dollars used to be. It’s less of a waste of money if it paints Facebook as a technology leader and distracts lawmakers, and helps give the company mind space among the te
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by signal11 2y ago
You can absolutely try. There are companies which provide support for out of support frameworks like Angular 1. In reality there’s not enough Spring committers who don’t work for Broadcom for it to happen widely. (Also Broadcom has other
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by signal11 2y ago
The enterprise is more polyglot now, at this point insistence on “one language” is a sign of immaturity (not gonna mince words). Also, enterprises were never “single language” — many have blends of COBOL/RPG among other things. Today t
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by signal11 2y ago
> Spring is for when doing projects with teams of several digits team size, with offshoring and several consulting agencies. It’s a better fit for smaller teams, especially with temp staff joining and leaving frequently, so the fact that
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by signal11 2y ago
> I spit my coffee out on part of this one! I don’t know if the Spring team have dev evangelists, but I got a chuckle out of it too. Such a dev evangelist thing to say. I do agree with your assessment, btw.
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by signal11 2y ago
> It is literally what fortune five hundred companies trust their fortunes with You’re overstating what “trust their fortunes with” means to a corporation. A framework is just technical detail. Often it’s tech debt if the framework is no
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by signal11 2y ago
It’s not about Java hate. Historical context: Spring was a lightweight alternative to J2EE. It started and became popular in financial services because no one wanted the boilerplate hell that was J2EE. By your logic we should all have stuck
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by signal11 2y ago
Spring’s security record prior to 6 was pretty interesting. They had a bunch of RCE causing vulns they wouldn’t even recognise as vulns (eg due to Java deserialisation issues), which wasn’t a great look for something in use in many large co
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by signal11 2y ago
> You'll get it when you make it to true Senior level :) This and the following lines have so many opinions presented as truisms, it’s difficult to take the poster seriously. 2-4 “senior” devs were spending time on tech-only feature
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by signal11 2y ago
> over and over I replied thrice because I was surprised to read commenters replies as if Outlook introduced a new unheard-of feature. Including an interop related question I thought about later, because I still can’t understand why emoj

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